From the You Don’t See That Every Day Dept., sculptor Sergio Furnari is visiting Albany with a life-sized sculpture recreating the famous 1932 image “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” which is itself atop a black pickup. As of 2 p.m. Friday, it was parked on Washington Avenue across the street from the Capitol.

Originally from Italy, Furnari is a New York City-based sculptor and painter — his specialty is custom hand-painted tiles — who said he has taken the girder-sitting sculpture around the country in an effort to interest some municipality in funding a permanent version cast in bronze.

Interviewed just inside the Capitol and away from a bitter wind, Furnari said he was hoping Gov. Andrew Cuomo might come down and check it out. “We need, always, the blessing of the governor — and this is a great governor,” he said.

The 10-year-old mockup of the sculpture is constructed from metal, cement and epoxy. Furnari puts the estimated cost of a bronze version around $500,000.

Furnari said more of his large-scale sculpture business these days was done outside of the U.S. “Artists — we’re not great businessmen, we’re not politicians,” he said. “We do a little bit of everything. Bottom line, I’ve got four daughters — not three but four. Every day I’ve got to think, how can I feed the kids?”

Which, oddly enough, probably close to the same waking thought of anyone crazy enough to make a living as a high-altitude construction worker.

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